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1. We need Chrome

   (Software/Software Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   ... That OS appears to be Chrome. Because Google's OS eschews old-fashioned disk drives, using flash RAM instead, Chrome is said to go from boot to user login in 7 seconds. Seven! Imagine all of the electricity ...

2. Chrome OS: Lame Copy or Amazing new OS?

   (Software/Software Features)

   Wednesday, 18 November 2009

   ...   Adobe’s Contrasting non-Reality Show Strategy I’ve been looking at what Adobe is doing with Air and their Flash Player 10.1 and their approach is vastly more subtle.   They let the OS vendors, both ...

3. Adobe upgrades Flash player with improved HD support

   (Software/Software Features)

   Tuesday, 17 November 2009

   Uncompromised Web browsing Adobe has upgraded its popular Flash player with improved support for HD video playback. The latest beta version of the application reportedly facilitates "uncompromised" Web ...

4. Obama meets polar bears, the Riemann Hypothesis, and Enermax

   (Networking/Networking Features)

   Tuesday, 17 November 2009

   ... You can find the review, here. Over at Anandtech, the boy wonders are testing a preview edition of Flash 10.1 running on a Nehalem Mac Pro with an EVGA GeForce GTX 285 bunged in there. It's here The ...

5. Sprint launches Palm Pixi smartphone

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Sunday, 15 November 2009

   ... the newest Palm smartphone allows users to visit non-mobile websites, with full scrolling and zooming capabilities. Finally, the Pixi boasts an integrated 2-megapixel camera with LED flash and automatic ...

6. Getting paid to watch porn

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Saturday, 14 November 2009

   ... brainstorming session? Do they write down a load of nouns, adjectives and verbs on flashcards and throw them up in the air? "Hey, rabbits trepanning recalcitrant amputee accountants! I can sell that shit!" ...

7. Motorola Droid snipes at iPhone's market share

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Tuesday, 10 November 2009

   ... offer a viable alternative to Apple's iPhone, with a full-QWERTY keyboard, 3.7" high-resolution screen and multi-window (Flash 10) HTML browser. 

The smartphone is also capable of running multiple applications ...

8. OpenOffice debuts analog joystick mouse

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Saturday, 07 November 2009

   ... 360-style joystick with optional 4, 8, and 16-key command modes. Clickable scroll wheel. 512k of flash memory. 63 on-mouse application profiles with hardware, software and autoswitching capability. 1024-character ...

9. Snow Leopard glitch means Windows 7 runs faster - on Macs

   (Software/Software Features)

   Monday, 02 November 2009

   ... But one user thought his 27" iMac was having major performance issues and not just with Flash. iPhoto slideshow transitions are choppy, Pandora streaming music skips and cracks up, game performance is ...

10. Unidentified bug causes massive CPU spike on 27-inch iMacs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 30 October 2009

    ... an unidentified bug that reportedly causes massive spikes in CPU usage. "I just upgraded my 24-inch iMac to the new 27-inch iMacs that just came out. Well, now EVERY Flash-based site like YouTube or ...

11. Researchers produce viable human germ cells

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Thursday, 29 October 2009

    ... human embryonic stem cells, to which they added a gene that makes a protein which flashes green when a gene found only in germ cells is turned on. After the embryonic stem cells grew and changed for two ...

12. Intel, Numonyx trumpet phase change memory breakthrough

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 29 October 2009

    ... density, scalable arrays and NAND-like usage models for PCM products in the future. This is important as traditional flash memory technologies face certain physical limits and reliability issues, yet demand ...

13. Motorola and Verizon trundle out Droid smartphone

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 28 October 2009

    ... large screen and access to Verizon's 3G network. The Droid features a full-QWERTY keyboard, 3.7" high-resolution screen and multi-window (Flash 10) HTML browser. The smartphone is also capable of running ...

14. Google intros Android 2.0 Eclair SDK for Droid smartphones

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 27 October 2009

    ... built-in flash, digital zoom, scene mode, white balance, color effect and macro focus. In addition, the Eclair SDK upgrades Android's virtual keyboard interface, with an improved layout, multi-touch ...

15. How Microsoft blindsided vulnerable Apple with Windows 7

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 22 October 2009

    ... advantages because the Microsoft team had no money left. Windows 7: A New Hope Windows 7 is coming out of the gate with only one known issue and that appears to be tied to problematic Flash update Adobe ...

16. SSDs inch toward the desktop

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Wednesday, 21 October 2009

    ... for most desktop users. For the vast majority of us, we'll be happy to use SSDs in the form of flash drives to carry mobile data or for quick, simple backups. But they have a long way to go in price and ...

17. ARM multicore chip challenges Intel's hegemony

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 20 October 2009

    ... cost handsets, phones, smartphones. The design uses ARM MPCore technology, already licensed by Broadcom, NEC, Nvidia, Renesas and Toshiba. It supports Android, Adobe Flash, JAVA SE, Java FX, Linux, ...

18. Verizon droid guns for iPhone

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Monday, 19 October 2009

    ... idon'tdroiddoes Just to stick the knife in, the site uses a lot of Adobe Flash which will run on practically every phone in the world other than the iPhone. Droid uses Android OS 2.0 which can run flash ...

19. NASA does kick up moon plume after all

    (Space/Space Features)

    Monday, 19 October 2009

    ... did indeed kick up the hoped-for debris plume, and generated useful data. Crashing into Cabeus crater last week, the nine LCROSS instruments successfully recorded the impact flash, the ejecta plume, ...

20. Analysts spout crap, charge megabucks

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Friday, 16 October 2009

    ... have it made. Flash offices; sharp suits; expense account lunches; no real work to do. Compare and contrast with the average journalist: lives in a cardboard box; eats dog food; and has to turn out six ...

21. Atom microarchitecture buoys Intel revenue

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 13 October 2009

    ... market.   Finally, Otellini confirmed that Intel's NAND Flash team was on the right path to creating a sustainable business with "good value" components and algorithms. He added that future platform ...

22. SanDisk ships 64 Gigabit X4 Flash memory cards

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 13 October 2009

    SanDisk has begun shipping 64 Gigabit X4 Flash memory cards. The new cards, which are based on 43-nanometer (nm) process technology, store four bits of data in a single memory cell. SanDisk has begun ...

23. Sun and Fujitsu upgrade SPARC processor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 13 October 2009

    ... deliver up to 25 percent "better performance" than previous processors. Sun also announced an enhanced SPARC memory controller, along with a new flash array known as the F5100. The array features up ...

24. Wesley Chan is the Google Voice Speedy Gonzalez

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Sunday, 11 October 2009

    ... was doing this because we were in a hall of mirrors and saw what we thought was a flash of light. When we focused, we realized we'd just seen Wesley run so fast with a digital SLR and snart snapping, snapping, ...

25. Scientists demonstrate telepathy, well, sort of

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Wednesday, 07 October 2009

    ... and transmitted a series of binary digits, imagining moving their left arm for zero and their right arm for one. The second person's PC picked up the stream of binary digits and flashed an LED lamp ...

26. Intel: Xeon 5500 servers are "cash machines"

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 06 October 2009

    ... may have been slightly assuaged by the September launch of the Oracle-Sun Exadata 2 database machine - which features Sun's FlashFire memory cards along with Xeon processors.    ...

27. Super Talent and Toshiba encrypt SATA SSDs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 05 October 2009

    ... and Toshiba's MLC NAND flash memories. The DX provides best-in-class security and reliability features combined with cutting edge performance in both read and write speeds," added James. The UltraDrive ...

28. Adobe brings Flash to future phones

    (Software/Software Features)

    Sunday, 04 October 2009

    Qualcomm and Adobe said they have worked together as part of the Open Screen Project to optimize and increase performance for Adobe Flash Player 10.1 to support Snapdragon chipsets.Qualcomm and Adobe ...

29. I speaka da Ingrish. I learn it from a vook

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 01 October 2009

    ... imprints." On the desktop vooks are viewable via the Vook Reader, which is built in Adobe Flash. Its XML-based text and HD-quality videos are streamed directly through any browser, so the reader can ...

30. How to save journalism

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Thursday, 01 October 2009

    ... online. I got Tuesday's news about the Samoan earthquake and tsunami via BreakingNews on Twitter, a full 15 minutes before CNN.com even had a news flash, nearly an hour before the New York Times website ...

31. Be afraid... the message of subliminal advertising

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Monday, 28 September 2009

    ... countries. The team, led by Professor Nilli Lavie, showed fifty participants a series of words on a computer screen. Each word flashed up for just a fraction of a second. The words were either positive ...

32. Intel outlines future of interactive television

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Thursday, 24 September 2009

    ... that Flash 10 was an important "enabling technology" that would help developers "blend" video, 3-D animation, gaming and rich graphics. Wadhwani confirmed that Intel is working with Adobe to port Flash ...

33. Silicon Valley returns to glory days

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 18 September 2009

    ... in flashing a bit of cash. Empty offices still dot the Silicon Valley landscape and the unemployment levels are only slightly down from a record high of 11.9% but it seems that people are starting to ...

34. TracFone sues "Intel Wireless" for reselling phones

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 17 September 2009

    ... unlocking or reflashing of TracFone phones, alteration of its copyrighted proprietary software, trafficking of the phones for profit and other Federal violations. The filing says that defendant Intel ...

35. 2TB SSDs released

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 16 September 2009

    ... are a quantum leap ahead of existing SSDs in sequential transfer speeds due to our RAID architecture combined with the latest in flash technology and the bandwidth of the PCI Express interface. Super ...

36. HP DreamScreen screens your friends at home

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 16 September 2009

    ... and digital content can be played using a USB or other type of flash card. You can move pictures and music around by dragging and dropping the data from a networked PC. The DreamScreen will also stream ...

37. Super Talent uncorks storage bottleneck with RAID SSDs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 16 September 2009

    ...  RAIDDrive GS - For gamers and enthusiasts looking to supercharge their IO subsystem. RAIDDrive GS can be factory configured as RAID 0 or RAID 5, uses MLC flash and is available in capacities up to 2TB. ...

38. Oracle and Sun showcase 'world's fastest' database machine

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 15 September 2009

    ... than any other computer in the world," said Ellison. "The CPUs are faster, the network is faster and the disks are faster. Exadata 2 offers a huge smart cache - not dumb flash disks - that provides ...

39. SanDisk gets speedy with faster flash cards

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 14 September 2009

    Memory company SanDisk said it has introduced a range of Extreme Pro CompactFlash memory cards with faster read and write speeds than before.Memory company SanDisk said it has introduced a range of Extreme ...

40. Intel confirms top management shakeup

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 14 September 2009

    ... The TMG organization under Bob Baker, Bill Holt and Brian Krzanich will report to Bryant but otherwise remain unchanged. Baker will continue to oversee Intel's NAND flash memory business. In addition ...